The CIA drone program began quietly under President George W. Bush with one strike in Yemen in 2002, and then a smattering of strikes in Pakistan b...

As summer vacation approaches, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is moving forward on its plans to bring next-generation Internet connect...

The following is the introduction to the comments. Download a PDF of the full comments here. In the past year, the Federal Communications Commissio...

This month the U.S. celebrated the 50-year mark for its domestic War on Poverty. Pundits from the left, right, and everywhere in between opined on ...

Families participating in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF/cash assistance) often must pay significant fees and surcharges...

The Sayada community network, Mesh Sayada, is a collaboratively designed and built wireless network. The town of Sayada is located on the Tunisian ...

OTI has partnered with groups around the world to develop the concept of Digital Stewardship, and hopes to refine it as more communities adopt and ...

A recent report from RTI International and Duke University shows results from an online survey of 398 North Carolina employers regarding their know...

The New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute joined Public Knowledge in submitting comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC...

The recent announcement that the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) intends to transfer key Internet domain name ...

Today, OTI and a coalition of public interest organizations sent a letter to Congress regarding the IANA transition and the proposed DOTCOM legisla...

March and April 2014 have been big months for the world’s youth in terms of inclusion in development and planning agendas. As concerns about the to...

The New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute and Education Policy Program submitted joint comments to the Federal Communications Commissi...

Building on its work on privacy, civil rights, and social justice, the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute will host a research conv...

Today, New America's Open Technology Institute submitted comments to the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, the office that's b...

The youth in Kenya were an excited lot as the long-awaited Global Money Week was finally approaching. Marketed and organized by Kenya Post Office S...

Today, OTI and a coalition of over 30 other organizations sent a letter to leaders in Washington calling for an end to the government's bulk collec...

Today, OTI and a coalition of public interest organizations sent a letter to Congress on the IANA transition ahead of the April 2 hearing on "Ensur...

This is the first installment of our series, Bringing the Bank to the Unbanked While Making Bank. The series explores how some private sector enter...

This is the second installment of our series, Bringing the Bank to the Unbanked While Making Bank. The first post in the series drew the conclusion...

A recent policy brief from the New America Foundation reports that the largest overall changes in student borrowing are at the graduate student lev...

For the Persian New Year, the Obama Administration gave the gift of online learning to citizens in Iran. Specifically, the Treasury Department auth...